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On Monday 05 Dec 2011 23:33:12 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2011-12-05, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday 05 Dec 2011 21:58:44 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >> On 2011-12-05, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> >> You can only have one primary bootloader, either grub from Gentoo or |
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> >> >> grub2 from Mint, it cannot be both. But it looks like that's what you |
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> >> >> do have. Seeing as you intend to drop Mint eventually, you must |
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> >> >> uninstall grub2 and all it's files from Mint. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Not *exactly* true. |
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> >> |
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> >> It is for the usual definition of "primary bootloader" as the one that |
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> >> is loaded and run by the BIOS. |
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> >> |
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> >> > Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, |
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> >> > that means you could have grub on /dev/sda |
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> >> |
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> >> (primary bootloader) |
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> >> |
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> >> > chainload grub on /dev/sdb |
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> >> |
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> >> (secondary bootloader). |
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> >> |
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> >> > I'm uncertain if it means you could chainload a bootloader stored in |
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> >> > the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda8, but I suspect so. |
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> >> |
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> >> You're right, you can. Though to get grub2 to install on a partition |
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> >> like /dev/sda8 instead of in the MBR you have to use the --force |
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> >> option or you'll get some incomprehensable error message when you try |
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> >> to do the 'setup' command. |
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> > |
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> > Last time I installed Ubuntu on a machine that had a different primary |
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> > OS/bootloader I chose for it to be installed on the Ubuntu partition and |
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> > there was not problem with it. It was GRUB2 |
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> I tried that a couple weeks ago with several different versions of |
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> Ubuntu and it didn't work with any of them. The installer was |
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> perfectly happy letting my chose a partition as a destination, and |
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> there were no error messages or warnings, but it just didn't work |
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> after it was installed. |
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> |
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> I had to boot the Ubuntu live CD and then install grub2 in the Ubuntu |
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> partition by hand using the --force option. |
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Hmm ... maybe they changed their scripts? It's been some time (more than a |
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year? ) since I tried it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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